Death
Sullivan had been close to blind for almost all of her life, but by 1935, she became completely blind. She died on October 20th, 1936 at the age 70 in Forest Hills, New York after being in a coma. Sullivan passed with Keller holding her hand. When Keller herself died in 1968, her ashes were placed in the Washington National Cathedral next to Anne's.
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